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Your account. and its really damaging. its one of the largest websites we have with this low of access into our personal lives. >> now, mr. kennedy, the obama administration is not happy with your testimony. in fact, they are pushing back very hard on it. the chief security officer for the website herself was very concerned about vulnerabilities back in october when the website was now launched now says it has been fully tested and it is secure. this is what she said when testifying before congr...

At the research ive done and came to the exact same conclusion. these are folks that work really well in the industry, they are highly respected and have an extensive experience of working for the government. if you rid the testimony and read what she actually said, she said its done end-to-end security testing. she doesnt say what type of testing, it could have been an audit to look at paperwork, it could have just looked for basic things, but the site itself is not secure. it is much worse off...

Vulnerabilities? >> youve seen a much more visible security presence particularly in volgograd. particularly you see a lot of that tomorrow. the olympic flag arrives in volgograd just a few weeks after those terror attacks here, which i say killed 34 people. interestingly will be arriving by train coming into the same train station that was attacked on december 29th. were expecting to see a large security presence. theres a sign for that. >> thanks so much. russia may be flooding sochi with more...

At the research ive done and came to the exact same conclusion. these are folks that work really well in the industry, they are highly respected and have an extensive experience of working for the government. if you read the testimony and read what she actually said, she said its done end-to-end security testing. she doesnt say what type of testing, it could have been an audit to look at paperwork, it could have just looked for basic things, but the site itself is not secure. it is much worse of...

Second, just as ardent civil libertarians recognize the need for robust intelligence capabilities, those with responsibilities for our national security readily acknowledge the potential for abuse as intelligence capabilities advance and more and more private information is digitized after all, the folks at nsa and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors, our friends, and family. they have got electronic bank and medical records like everybody else. they have kids on facebook and instagram...

For robust intelligence capabilities those with responsibilities for our national security readily acknowledge the potential for abuse as intelligence capabilities advance and more and more private information is digitized. after all the folks at nsa and other intelligence agencies are our neighbors. theyre our friend and family. they have got the electronic bank and medical records like everybody else. they have kids on facebook and instagram. and they know more than most of us the vulnerabilit...

Clear vulnerability for the program. >> david kennedy head of a cybersecurity firm be, independent firm, he and seven other cybersecurity experts have been looking since the launch at the web site, and they say at least 20 vulnerabilities that they identified october 1st with healthcare.gov are still present today. and they say its fundamentally flawed, that its dangerous and that one of the most malicious things that can happen is that hackers can put malicious code onto the site and then attac...

Expert you just played the sound bite from, called healthcare.gov shockingly bad and says issues across the site are varied. you dont even have to hack into healthcare.gov to recognize there are severe problems underneath. one committee chairman overseeing one of these hearings today, says that contradicts the public sales pitch. >> when the obama administration launched healthcare.gov americans were led to believe that the website was safe and secure. the science, space, technology committee le...

Health care.dpov is not secure today, and nothing has really changed since the november 19 testimony. in fact, from our november 19 testimony its even worse. additional security researchers have come into play providing additional research, additional findings that we can definitely tell that the website is not getting any better. as an attacker, if i had access to the healthcare.gov from a tra it has direct intergracious to the irs, dhs as well as third-party providers for credit card checks. i...

Exactly steered the contracts towards the firm that put christie in the ads. dont we need more transparency than this from the christie administration? >> absolutely. with a number of different investigations going on at this point the less transparency you see from governor christie the more it damages him actually in the state and also for 2016 because these become vulnerabilities. why werent you more forth coming? the ads kind of write themselves. he has to think about this on dual tracks. th...